MindTickle - Program Manager (5-10 yrs)
What you'll be doing :
- Serves as scrum master for 2-4 development teams, composed of engineers, product managers, and designers, to ensure predictable delivery of high quality product features
- Create and maintain team roadmaps and backlogs with product managers
- Facilitate backlog grooming, sprint planning, kick-offs, retrospectives and other standard processes ceremonies
- Identify risks, visualize upstream & downstream dependencies and help unblock challenges
- Provide project status and estimates to all stakeholders
- Help the team with the story creation, estimation and planning processes
- Administrate appropriate project management tools
- Coordinate cross-project activities
What we are looking for :
- 4+ years of project management experience in a software product organization.
- Hands-on experience of agile development
- Track record of successfully executing complex, high-impact projects working directly with engineering teams
- Deep understanding of agile approaches such as scrum, and other methods for managing development work such as Lean and Kanban
- Experience of implementing complex workflows, dashboards and configurations in a project management tool, Jira preferred
- Knowledge of widely used Agile practices like continuous integration test-driven-development, pair programming etc.
- Ability to remove roadblocks, manage conflicts and negotiate successful outcomes through a facilitative approach
Personal attributes :
- Strong desire to work in an unstructured, fast moving startup environment
- Very good analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong interpersonal skills, aptitude for coaching & mentoring
- Excellent written & verbal communication skills